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Heat transport properties of feldspathoids and ANA zeolites as a function of temperature

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The phonon component of thermal diffusivity (D) was measured up to temperatures (T) of ~1350 K using laser-flash analysis from leucite, analcime, pollucite, nepheline, sodalite, and petalite, many of which were single crystals. From electron microprobe analysis, nepheline is a solid solution, Na2(Na1.2K0.71)Al3.88Si4.10O16, whereas the other minerals have nearly endmember chemical compositions. From near-IR spectra, hydroxyl contents range from ~200 ppm to 1 wt%. At 298 K, D is low (0.51–0.75 mm2 s−1) for the zeolites and the solid-solution nepheline but moderate (1.9–2.2 mm2 s−1) for the endmember feldspathoids. For leucite, D decreases with increasing T until reaching the tetragonal to cubic phase transition whereupon D increases. A complex polynomial is required to describe D(T) for leucite, due to the displacive transition. For the other samples, as observed for most minerals, D decreases up to dehydration which terminated the runs and is described by FT −G + HT where G varies from 0.14 to 1.44 and H is negligible to 0.0006 K−1. Available heat capacity and volumetric data were used to calculate thermal conductivity as a function of T. For sodalite and petalite, k decreases with T, whereas for the remaining phases, k is roughly constant and low, ~1.5 Wm−1 K−1.

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Acknowledgments

I thank P. Carpenter (Washington U.) for electron microprobe analyses. This work was supported by NSF Grant EAR-1321857.

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Hofmeister, A.M., Ke, R. Heat transport properties of feldspathoids and ANA zeolites as a function of temperature. Phys Chem Minerals 42, 693–706 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-015-0755-8

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